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We as American citizens should be aware of what is taking place in the White House.

1. Building a wall. This will cost you and I a lot of money for what purpose? Mexico will not pay for it. A 20 percent import tax? Think about it, if you are a company and had your production costs increase, what do you do? You pass it along to your customers. American taxpayers are one of the biggest purchasers of Mexican products. The White House has already said, the citizens of the U.S. will be footing the bill, until Mexico pays?

The wall will cost billions of dollars, and some of the companies needed are closest to areas of the wall, basically cement companies, that are Mexican-owned, so they will make considerable profit from us, the taxpayer. Roads have to be built for some of the more remote areas, and workers will need to brought in from somewhere, at what costs?

2. Travel ban. We are a country built on religious freedom. The White House banned entry from seven countries. Countries with much larger Muslim populations, such as Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the country in which Dubai resides, were not included. Why not, particularly Saudi Arabia, where terrorists have come from, and their attacks caused American deaths?

3. Respect. Watching the news conference with UK Prime Minister Theresa May and President Trump, she continually referred to him as President Trump, and he referred to her as Theresa.

4. Steve Bannon. Military or security experience? None. But he has a more powerful position than Joint Chiefs of Staff and the director of national security. The position he has been given is usually held by a general, not the head of a campaign.

5. Medicare. Those of us on Social Security need to keep a close watch on the “voucher” plan being suggested for Medicare (seniors’ health insurance, which we already pay for). We were told during the campaign he “would not touch Social Security.”

Diane Ray,

Zion Grove

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